Energy

Solar

Top 5 Solar Energy Advances Using Perovskites

For years, perovskite solar cells have promised revolutionary improvements compared to traditional silicon solar panels. Perovskite could hold the key to higher efficiency at lower costs and in some cases has shown a 250% performance boost. But scientists have been working on improving this solar energy tech since the 1990s. What do we have to […]

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Science

Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors

Isaac Arthur covers small modular reactors are a promising area of nuclear technology that may be the pathway forward to cheap, safe, and sustainable energy.

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AWS

Innovation and reinvention across the energy value chain

Session from today at re:Invent 2022. Historically, the energy industry has been able to reinvent itself in a myriad of ways and successfully deploy new technologies. Examples include advances in energy production, remote monitoring, and innovation across a wide variety of renewable energies. The challenge today is to balance the acceleration of the energy transition […]

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AI

The Power of Data Fusion

Yanyan Wu, VP, Data and Data Analytics, Wood Mackenzie, a Business of Verisk, dives into the importance of having large amounts of diverse, clean and high-quality data to drive new insights. She also discusses how modern cloud data architectures, like the Lakehouse, make it easier than ever to combine data sets, structured to unstructured, to […]

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Economics of AI Solar

Powering the Digital Economy: The Cost of Living and the Energy Future

What are the best strategies to reduce carbon footprints and meet long-term net-zero ambitions?

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Science

The Big Misconception About Electricity

Here’s a fascinating riddle of science: do electrons carry energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load or is something else at play?

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Science

Beyond the Atom: Remodelling Particle Physics

Here’s a great overview of subatomic physics for your Thursday science fix. Everything in the universe is made up of just a few different types of subatomic particles. Learn more about these particles and how physicists have built their knowledge of them – including the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider […]

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